Summary: Watchdog Reset and Summary Sites

From: Becker, Mark (beckerm@nasd.com)
Date: Fri Aug 30 1996 - 13:59:00 CDT


Yesterday I asked

>
> On one of the 4 Sun 630 MPs that we are running we get a "Watchdog Reset"
> message when rebooting the system.
> This system is rebooted daily - I do not know if the memory is run across
> all 256M of RAM on POST.
>
> This has happened twice in the past week. The lightly loaded system seems

> to run fine during production hours.
>
> BTW, does anyone remember the location where summaries to this list are
> posted and made searchable?

Thanks to :

Keith (e-mail address swallowed by MicroUseless mail)
Benjamin Cline benji@hnt.com
Johnie Stafford js@cctechnol.com
Stefan Rauthenberg rauthenberg@HHI.DE

Who pointed out that if one gets a watchdog reset while the system is
booting the problem
is a CPU problem and you cannot easily determine which CPU is at fault.
Last night the Sun maintenance fellow replaced both CPUs (of course he
brought 2 different
CPU boards and staff had to wait while a matched pair was picked up and
delivered). The system is back up and running.

The following URLs were given for locating Sun Manager Summaries.
The Nexial site uses a fuzzy search engine that is very forgiving.

http://www.latech.edu/sunman.edu
http://www.nexial.nl/cgi-bin/sunmanagers
http://sunsolve.sun.com
http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/sun/inform/sun-info.html

Stefan added that for those of us with email but w/o net access

  Even if you do not have full access to the Internet, you can still take
  advantage of www.LaTech.edu archives and WAIS via the WAIS mail
  server. While this is a primitive tool compared to interactive usage,
  it does work. To get information on using the WAIS mail server, send a
  message to waismail@quake.think.com with a body containing the single
  word "help". If you wish to search the SUMMARY messages from
  sun-managers, you can use the "sun-managers-summary.src" source.

Thanks again for the rapid and accurate responses.

Mark
beckerm@nasd.com



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